I inherited my grandmother's 722 .257. She was mostly a meat hunter, so mostly shot deer, though did take one cow elk with the rifle, using the standard Remington factory load with a 117-grain roundnose at 2650 fps.

It's taken the first big game animal for several people in our family, and in my hands has taken a bunch of pronghorns, whitetails and mule deer, including a big buck muley. Oh, and a pile of chucks out to 500-600 yards.

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"Gunwriters, as you know, aren't as informed as their readers are and if it wasn't for the readers, there would be no need for writers..."--Shrapnel, May 2015

I,m really like to shoot my 257R model 70. Also have a Remington 760 in the safe in 257R. Got 3 boxes of shellwith the model 70 when I bought it one was a box of100 winchester silver tips, ran the them thru my cronograghand got 2944FPS. May still have part of the box. Boxsaid 1951 same year as the rifle. How do you tell whatyear a Remington 760 was made?

Bottom line on the 257Bob as is the same for all 6mm,and all 25 Cal. Use an adequate big game bullet, do your part and it WILL do theirs Phucking Period. Every time, all the time. It's not the cartridge that's inadequate, it's the phucking idiot jerking the trigger.

Since I have been shooting my new Ruger #1 in 257 Roberts, ifind myself sincerely wishing it would have been in consideration for my older son while he was in his teens. Since he is a lefty, the choices were limited. Instead, I started him with a Savage 110 LH '06, which had more recoil than he could shoot accurately. He has since become a great rifle shot, but I'm guessing it could have been so much easier.

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